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Colliding Plasma Toroid Fusion by Electron Power Systems Ltd.

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: Electron Power Systems™ (EPS) has discovered a clean, non-polluting energy technology. It will enable clean electricity production for one-tenth its cost today. It will potentially lead to low-mass, high-energy power for cars, aircraft and space launch vehicles. It does not use fossil fuels, and does not produce pollution.

: EPS has discovered a plasma toroid that remains stable without magnetic confinement, by using background gas pressure for confinement instead. These plasma toroids are observed to remain stable for thousands of times longer than classical plasma toroids, which opens the way for new clean energy applications.

Keyword: Spheromak

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Six-kilowatt Power Supply using the Colliding EST Fusion Reactor (pdf) - "We are developing a six-kw power supply that is non-polluting, and uses no fossil fuels or nuclear fuels. In production it will cost about the same as present gasoline powered six-kw power supplies, but will run for a year continuously on about a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of hydrogen and boron, compared to 7300 gallons of gasoline. It can be scaled up into a larger generating plant where it will produce electricity for about $0.0005 per kw-hr, compared to $0.05 per kw-hr today. This white paper describes a three-year project to build a prototype 6-kw power supply.

that shows we can potentially reach energies of 110keV or so. This was

described in a final report to Dr. Ware.

Plasma pressure: You are correct in that the plasma pressure will be low.

This is because it is a self-organized plasma. All charged particles are in

a defined pattern relative to each other, a kind of matrix. The electrons

are in separate shells from the ions. The ions in a single shell have all

the ions held by interacting forces in fixed positions relative to all other

ions, a kind of matrix formation.

Energy potential: The potential is that the overall plasma toroid can be

accelerated (we have done so), potentially to high enough velocity that two

plasma toroids can be collided. This is similar to the TRISOPS project that

collided two plasma toroids of deuterium ions and produced neutrons.

TRISOPS showed that two colliding plasma toroids will adhere to one another,

but not coalesce, and that collisions between ions will occur in the

surfaces. This then becomes two self-organized plasma toroids, collided at

110keV, to collide ions within their matrix surfaces.

Our calculations show that we will produce many orders of magnitude

more energy than the TRISOPS project, and will pass break even. This is

what we are working to confirm.

Short Q&A

Hi,

Let me answer these briefly, as you ask them.

Sigma: What do you see EPS doing for space propulsion compared to current rocket technology? Single-stage to orbit? More than one flight per fueling?

Clint: The EPS technology provides a simple way to replace 260,000 kg of chemical rocket fuel with one kg of hydrogen/boron. A present day NASA launcher is 95% fuel mass at take off. So, for starters, launchers would be 95% smaller, and 95% less expensive.

Our numbers show that this would enable a small single-stage to orbit solution.

Our numbers show that more than one flight per refueling is feasible.

Sigma: Would the propulsion be similiar to the EPS beam weapon technology or would it have to be modified?

Clint: First some background: The EPS technology provides for two things: first, a compact energy generator, and second, a means to accelerate EST Spheromaks (stable plasma toroids).

One can envision getting into space from earth using a jet engine by generating lots of heat, heating air, using heated air as a propellant. This jet engine would get from ground into space without propellant (using ambient air) and with 95% less system mass. Once in space, one would generate the energy and use it to accelerate EST Spheromaks, in a way similar to the beam technology.

Sigma: How quickly could this technology get us to the moon? Or to Mars?

Clint: The EPS technology would get us to the moon or mars far more quickly than any chemical or nuclear rockets. The reason is simple: the EST Spheromaks can be ejected at much higher velocity, thus imparting a much higher momentum change. This is especially important in that the EST Spheromak spaceship will have 95% less fuel mass, and so will be quite small.

Clint: The EPS technology would allow a simple spacecraft that is 95% less expensive than “conventional" spacecraft, could launch anywhere (needs no special fuel handling, and the fuel is inherently stable and safe). New materials and computers will improve this further.

One additional thought: the EST Spheromak spaceship will enable interstellar travel by allowing refueling in space. If one were to use hydrogen, one can refuel in space since hydrogen is available virtually anywhere (try finding rocket fuel or enriched uranium or plutonium, so NASA can only plan for missions that carry enough of Earth fuel to get them back).

Second, since the EST Spheromak can be accelerated to near relativistic velocities, the spaceship can travel at near the speed of light, meaning one could get to the nearest star system (4.4 light years) in about 5 years.

Hope this is helpful.

Clint

Inventor

Clint Seward is the discoverer of the EST and received the initial patents. He has been a research project and program manager for many years, working initially with the US Air Force B-58 Hustler program, and as a project manager and engineering manager in several major corporations. He has been a general manager for a division of a large international company, and president of his own company for more than ten years. Education: MSEE U of Michigan, 1965 BS at USMA at West Point 1963.

Colliding Plasma Toroid Clean-Energy Breakthrough - Modified high-density plasma toroids will be collided to produce both electricity and heat for homes, and to power road vehicles and aircraft. How sustainable is this process environmentally? (PESN Mar. 8, 2006)

The future of Electron Power Systems (EPS) - According to a document by Clint Seward, EPS may have a micro-fusion generator working within a few years based on the company's proprietary stable plasma toroids. (ZPEnergy Jan. 18, 2006)

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